Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-09

Shelburn Harbor Immediately by 40 men
who came from the works of the builders
for that purpose. The engine is now on
the way, and will arrive within few
days
The Burlington base ball club is now an
institution of the past. 1t died natural
death Thursday, owing to misun-
derstanding on the part of the players as
TO the contract made about two weeks
ago with the base ball management
They claimed all the proceeds of Thurs
days game after the deduction of the
! Giants pay, hence the trouble.
S. C. ShurtlefT of Montpelier was in the
city Wednesday holding II hearing as a
referee in the case of II. o. Wormell
against the Telephone company for dam
ages to his photograph rooms owing to
the shadow cast by the wires. f. r.. Hard
appeared for the plaintiff ana Wales 81
Wales for the defendant The referee
will report the case to the County Court.
Nellie Fronette and Melinda Bro, il
who were arrested on Sunday for stealing
pair of shoes and a pair of ruDbers from
Or. j. b. Wheeler's residence, were ar
1agned in the City Court Monday on
the charge of petit larceny and convicted
| They were each sentenced to serve II term
of three months in the house of correction
| The shoes We're found at Mrs. Fronette's
house and the rubbers at Mrs. Browns.
| Judging from the se9timents expressed
on the street the committee on public
buildings and parks, who are understood
TO be in favor of repairing the city market
building and grading aud tagging the
| streets around the grounds, will be gener-
ally sustained in making the proposed
| improvements. The rental will be in
creased so that the expenditure will be
light burden on the taxpayers and the
| improvement in the premises will in it
self more than compensate for the outlay.
| The Catholic schools of this city opened
Monday with the usual large attend
ance in all the departments. Mount St
Mary's academy on Mansfield avenue has
an unusually large number ofpupils, over
40 applications having been received for
admission to the boarding school and
sui others being expected Several vHlu-
able acquisitions to the corps of teachers
in the schools have been made and the
outlook for the year ) work is most Ell.
| cOuraglng.
| The Burlington Bluebells and the
| Young Americans played Il game of bali
saturday on Judge Snaw's lot in the
north part of the city, which resulted
in a score Of % to 81 in favor of the
| Young Americans at the end OF the
! 1Oth inning. The batteries were for the
| Bluebells, Clark and Raine and for the
Americans, Trombly aud Luck. Clark
struck out one and T9omOly four The
Bluebellsi played Il good game but the
| Young Americans were too much for
| them.
| y very pleasant time was had Tuesday
evening at the sOciable given by the W.
CT |. in Temperance hall. rhe entertan-
ment consisted OF vocal music rendered by
Messrs. Swift. I,ham, Knapp and Wilbur
Several selections were read in very en-
tertaining manner by Miss Mary Hayden,
the teacher OF elocution in the school of d.
l.. Moody at Mortified, Mass, which
were enjoyed very much by the audience
present. At the conclusion of the literary
programme an hour was spent very pleas
antly in social enjoyment.